No, your just fucking stupid. Their target is Catch Wrestlers so they follow catch wrestling rules.

Its actually kinda cool eliminating guard for a bit. If pins win then that makes being in side mount and guard very dangerous. Meaning you'll end up giving your back up lots of times when you would normally go for guard. Im sure practicing this way from time to time would greatly increase your ability to defend the back mount.

Karl Gotch is the KING of Catch Wrestling. Matt Furey is a snake oil salesman who thinks 15 mins of Hindu squats is better than weights and running. I actually competed in the first round of this tournament, it was held in Madison, Mississippi. Every match was two out of three falls.
If anyone cares, my first match I lost one fall when I got stacked in my guard, won one fall by pinning the other guy, and got eliminated when I sat up too high trying for a Kimura in side control (why didn't I just pin him? Shut up hippie!) got reversed, and was pinned for the win.

"How many times have you competed against a sandbagger? At the King of Catch Wrestling, there is no 'beginner', intermediate', or 'advanced' division. The whole tournament is open to all levels."
Of course I'm sick of fighting people of a higher level than me in my own division. So how in the hell would eliminating skill divisions, and thus putting me up against MORE high level grapplers fix this problem?

"How many times have you competed against a sandbagger? At the King of Catch Wrestling, there is no 'beginner', intermediate', or 'advanced' division. The whole tournament is open to all levels."
Of course I'm sick of fighting people of a higher level than me in my own division. So how in the hell would eliminating skill divisions, and thus putting me up against MORE high level grapplers fix this problem?

This is to determine the KING of catch wrestling. If you don't think you have enough skill to be the king, then don't enter. And whining about competing against high level competitors is a bitch move.

"Mr. Tortelli, why did you hop your 3 months of BJJ butt into it then?"

"Because I thought it would be fun, and anyway, I got eliminated in the first round. WITHOUT bitching that everyone else was at a higher level than me, I might add."